reflection on the lake
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The lake of mirrors

Common Nighthawks, Chordeiles minor, circle around in long, swirling loops when courting mates. They call repeatedly with a nasal "peent", interrupted occasionally by a short dive, tucking their wings in to create a spectacular "boom" as the air rushes through their feathers. Being a largely crepuscular behavior, it is more often heard rather than seen. It much of rural North America this is a twilight sound of early Dawn and late Dusk.

In one of my favorite places to record, the arid Seep Lakes of Central Washington, the Nighthawks cruise low, often below the lips of the coulees that dot the region. Their booms and calls echo off the canyon walls. One evening, on a "rooftop coulee" (a coulee on a stack), this little bird buzzed me for over an hour. Here's just a tiny snippet.

Something I hadn't noticed until recently is the call they make at the start of a dive is staccato, slightly punctuated, as if they're saying "Hey! Lookitthis!" or maybe "Wheee!"


Also on #YouTube Nighthawk On TheRooftop
https://youtu.be/dJEsOaGgPBI where you can see fancy spectrogram squiggles and a picture of the coulee

Image credit:
"Common nighthawk at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge Wyoming" by USFWS Mountain Prairie is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.

Common Nighthawk Courtship Display

sunday morning

This immersive ambient track with the gentle, constant flow of water in the background hopes to create a serene atmosphere that can take the listeners on a meditative and beautiful journey to a hidden forest creek. 

Whisper of the creek

Natural immersion

Au petit matin dans le massif du Grossmann, une grive musicienne s'en donne à cœur joie au sommet d'un sapin.    
Parabole avec micros earsight

Grive musicienne

This is a montage of short sound effect samples of the complete clips available in the Swedish Woodlands: Spring "Jet Pack" from Airborne Sound, here:
https://www.airbornesound.com/downloads/swedish-nature-sounds/
It is a collection of 64 96 kHz/24-bit WAV files, professionally mastered with multi-format embedded metadata.

Swedish Woodlands, Spring Sound Effects Library Audio Demo Preview Montage

Ocean Dreams

I don't take moments like this for granted these days, knowing how fast this species has declined in the Uk, this might even be the last time I see a pair holding a territory like this, which makes it even more of a magical recording for me. It's a simple song, but they are capable of a complex variety of different calls and song types, some of which you hear as the pair interact with each other before the male put on a good show for her. 

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii / Schoeps Mk 4 inside Telinga Dish + Stereo MK 2's 

Willow Tit Pair Song - MixPre-7339

I never turn my dish away from these guys, they are so loud and that buttery smooth warble is just epic. I just wish they'd stay still!!

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii / Schoeps Mk 2 inside Telinga Dish + Stereo MK 2's

Nuthatch Song - MixPre-7335

Field Recordist / Sound designer
Shhhhh. Listening to nature.

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Artisan and sound designer with a passion for sound exploration and creative experimentation. Specializing in the handcrafted production of contact microphones and tools for field recordings and artistic projects. Also active as a composer and sound designer, creating immersive soundscapes for installations and multidisciplinary performances.

Paul Virostek has been travelling worldwide as a field recordist since 1996 to work on projects such as Michael Mann's Ali, Batman Begins, Jerry Bruckheimer's Glory Road and HBO's Generation Kill.  He has also collaborated with Microsoft, Apple, Sprint and Adobe.

He's also the owner of airbornesound.com, where you can download over 25,000 of his professionally mastered sound effects.

You can read about his travels field recording worldwide on his blog at creativefieldrecording.com

From Japan. Born in 2001.

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New tracks tagged #Nature Sound